Officially OT -> Re:My fiscal responcibility...

[Lloyd Budd]

On 22-May-04, at 22:55, James Knott wrote:

> Lloyd Budd wrote:
>> On 22-May-04, at 21:36, James Knott wrote:
>>>  However, the entire idea of a "God" or other deity is most 
>>> certainly a delusion.  Such beliefs were developed as a way to 
>>> explain the world, at a time when there was no other explanation.  
>>> Now it's just fiction.
>> Now there is explanation ?  "Is there consensus on where [science] 
>> ends and [faith] begins" ?
>
> Well, science is generally demonstratable and provable.  Faith is 
> simply what some people believe, with little or no basis in reality.
>
> If I make a claim in science, I have to provide a complete description 
> of the process taken to arrive at a conclusion and it must be 
> repeatable.  With faith, there is little to substantiate the claims.

You say God it is just fiction .  Prove it ;-)

I think it is a powerful statement that many of the "top scientists" 
today , and historically , not to mention Linux Luminaries ;-) , 
believe in God .


> There's a couple of books worth reading on this area.  They are Carl 
> Sagan's "A Demon Haunted World" and "Voodoo Science" by Robert Park.
If I were to read just one ?

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